Monday, November 22, 2010

Saturday, October 9: Saying "Hello" to Exhibiting Artist Friends

Saturday was a very busy day at NYCC; it was good that I decided to stop by and see exhibiting artist friends early - Kei Acedera and Peter Chan from Imaginism Studios in Toronto always have a busy booth. The company's current project is work on the bull frog, alley cat and blue jay from The Familiars; Sam Raimi is the executive producer of The Familiars for Sony Pictures Animation.

Doug and I met Echo at Fan Expo Canada 2010 and were happy to see her exhibiting at NYCC. She's a fun lady as is her assistant (right), Elena, who stopped by Artist Alley later Saturday afternoon to have Doug sketch her in Unpublished Sneyd. It was a surprise gift for her boyfriend Jason, who's currently overseas on military duty.

Doug and I met Stephen Silver at the 2008 NYCC; in fact, he helped set up Doug's blog then. We always look forward to seeing Stephen and his wife Heidi when we're in San Diego at SDCC.

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Bio

Doug has been a cartoonist for Playboy magazine since 1964.
For nearly 20 years, starting in the mid-60's, his "Doug Sneyd" and "Scoops" news cartoons appeared daily in newspapers across North America. Sneyd's talent has also led him into cinema: in 1993, he wrote, produced and directed "Black-eyed Susan," an educational movie-drama about spousal abuse, for the Ontario government. He was a founding member of the Canadian Society of Book Illustrators and has been a member of the National Cartoonists' Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Thirty of his full-page color Playboy cartoons are among the 235 Sneyd works included in the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa.
Sneyd was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, but spent much of his professional career in Toronto. In 1969 he moved his family north to Orillia made famous as the mythical "Mariposa" by humorist Stephen Leacock. He works on the third floor of his home-studio overlooking beautiful Lake Couchiching and spends his winters on the Gulf Coast in Orange Beach, Alabama.